Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-21
BADGER NEWS.

HE common council of Rice Lake
refuses to adopt resolution for the
enforcement of the law against the sale
OF liquor on Sunday.
NINETY per cent. of the tobacco crop
OF Wisconsin is under cover.
The number of cases of diphtheria
IN La Crosse is increasing daily.
EDWARD Lew, who achieved consid-
cradle notOrlety as the boon cOmpan-
ion and fast friend OF Paul Grouttkau;
will sever his connection with the Mil
waukee Arbeiter Zeitung, October L.
He will go to Cincinnati and work on
the ArDeiter Zoitung there.
THE Knapp-Stout company will
provide Menominee with a roller grist
mill that will turn out 100 barrels a.
day.
The large hay crop in Door County
Is being marketed from Sturgeon Bay,
where g. steam press has been put in
operation. Thus far about 200 tons
have been shipped to Menominee,
Mich.
AN albino squirrel was captured at
Cameron, Barron County, which,
though Of the red squirrel species, is
pure white, not q colored hair appear
ing, and is bright and clipper, prom
ising to tame easily.
CHARLES STEINHOFF, charged with
attempting to kill Herman L. Levy,
of Eau Claire, failed to appear for
trial and consequently his bail was
forfeited. His partner, Adolph
Brocka, was sent to jail for thirty
days.
A FORCE of from 800 to 400 men is
engaged on the blast furnace at Ash
land. The company is also building
coal kilns at Dogwood and Butternut
and will erect many more in different
portions OF this part of the state.
THE bed of yellow ochre at Ridge
way, Iowa County, has been explored
to width of thirty feet. The vein is
fully seven and half feet thick and
the ochre of as fine quality as any
ever discovered. 1t is thought the
bed is 80 feet wide and about 100 feet
long.
A YOUNG man named William Raube
was fairly run through by g. wagon
pole while he and number of COM
panions were on the road from Sister
Bay, in Door County. The team was
running down a slope when he play
fully ran before it as if to stop it. He
lived but short time after he was
hurt.
THE rumor that the Eau Claire Lum-
Der Company has sold out is con-
firmed. The company saw-mills and
other property at Eau Claire and
standing pine on the Eau Claire River
are stated on good authority to have
been bought by the Mississippi River
Logging Company. The consideration
was 81, 100000.
The first train over the Duluth,
South Shore & Atlantic road arrived
at Sault Ste. Marie on the 10th. The
last train was laid at noon, amid the
cheers of vast crowd of enthusiastic
spectators. A battery of two guns
from Fort Brady was taken to the
terminus of the road and q salute of
twenty one guns fired.
THE body of Carl Hoffman, tailor,
was found hanging to tree in Gard
ner's woods, town of Wauwatosa,
Milwaukee County, on the 10th. He
had only been in this country short
cine. Dissipation is the supposed
cause OF the suicide.
HENRY ZINIMER, charged with for
gerry, has made two attempts to es.
cape from the Eau Claire jail.
THE State Fair Association at it's
business meeting at Milwaukee on the
18th, reelected the old officers.
Gov. RUsK will attend the G.. A. r.
encampment at st. Louis next month,
and he will be escorted there by four.
teen veterans, all employed in the cap
itol, every one of whom lost either an
arm or leg in the war.
The Milwaukee. Lake Shore & West
ern Railway has just received con.
eignment of side-board flats and ore
dump cars, the former from the United
States Rolling Stock Company and
the latter from the Barney & Smith
Manufacturing Company. They each
have a capacity for 10000 pounds
and are 81 feet long.
i. M. GRIsWOLD's sawmill, Fish
Greek, Door County, was destroyed by
fire. The dock aDd aquantity of lunl-
Der also burned. Loss, $4,000.
THE annual report of the State Fish
Commission shows that in 1887, s.
SIS, 900 more fry were distributed
tina in 1886. The applications for
fry constantly exceed the supply.
There are 1853 applications for next
springs distribution. Mr.. Nevins rec
Ommends that if a new hatchery be
built that it be located at Marinette,
large enough to hatch from 10000
900 to 100000 Mackinac trout
fry, per year. Philo Dunning, of Mad
ison, was reelected president of the
commission, and G. L. Valentine, of
GAINESVILLE, was reelected secretary
and treasuser. James Nevins was re-
elected superintendent.
The body of the man who was
found in Tesch's woods, near Milwau-
kee, has been identified as that Of
Charles Cesar, chief engineer for the
Schlitz Brewing Company Mr.. Caesar
leaves wife and FIVE grown up chill
dren.
The large building on the east side
OF West Water street. Milwaukee,. oc.